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A firsthand account of the shocking Tlatelolco Massacre, still denied by the Mexican government.

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The unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey

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A gripping and fascinating account of the Great War - told through the events of 100 key dates between 1914 and 1918.

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In this book, cultural historian Harlan Lebo looks back at the first Moon landing, Manson family murders, Woodstock, and the birth of the Internet to tell the story of how each event shaped the nation and how we perceive ourselves.

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True patriotism is built on a bedrock of understandingwho we are as individuals and as a nation, how our ideals and our democracy have evolved, and what it really means to be an American.

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In this study, underpinned by biographical sketches of the great warriors who fought for the crown of England in 1066, Frank McLynn shows that the Battle on Senlac Hill on 14 October was desperately close-run thing, which Harold lost only because of a run of bad fortune and some treachery from the Saxon elite in England.

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Broad in scope and rich in detail, 1215: THE YEAR OF MAGNA CARTA is a vivid exploration of what may have been the most important year of our lives.

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Does he deserve to be thought of as 'the greatest man who ever ruled England'

In Ian Mortimer's groundbreaking book, he portrays Henry in the pivotal year of his reign. Recording the dramatic events of 1415, he offers the fullest, most precise and least romanticised view we have of Henry and what he did.

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In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.

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Mann brings together all of the latest research, and the results of his own travels throughout North and South America, to provide a new, fascinating and iconoclastic account of the Americas before Columbus.

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An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand

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A searing account of the oppression of a peaceful and progressive community, and how this has affected Iran's national identity

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Drawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the Caribbean to the Pacific; the plains of the Ganges to the Great Lakes of North America.

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Presents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazing characters from George III to George Washington, to soldiers and their families.

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"[A] superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Drawing on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of a new nation, Thomas B. Allen tells the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the other Founders set this new federal government into motion.

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Adam Zamoyskis bestselling account of Napoleons invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.

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* A brilliant, colourful narrative history of a pivotal year in European history

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"1858" explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict.